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How I came to be entering the 2019 Massive Murray Paddle

Sometimes having a big mouth gets you into the good kind of trouble. In this case, 404km of trouble.

5 min readJun 10, 2019

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How I came to be entering the 2019 Massive Murray Paddle

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Ross Floate

Clear your mind, and the work will follow.

It’s been a big 2019 so far for people writing the books we need. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the irrepressible Austin Kleon’s new…

2 min readApr 10, 2019

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Clear your mind, and the work will follow.

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Ross Floate

Only spines can save us now

Ruined By Design: How Designers Destroyed The World And What We Can Do To Fix It

2 min readApr 9, 2019

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Only spines can save us now

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Ross Floate

Helping fitness data do more than just Exist: a conversation with Belle and Josh from Hello Code.

Belle Cooper and Josh Sharp at Melbourne firm Hello Code talked with me about the inception of Exist, what it’s doing with health and…

13 min readAug 3, 2018

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Helping fitness data do more than just Exist: a conversation with Belle and Josh from Hello Code.

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13 Questions for Bec Mercer

Designer, roller-derby-player, and all-around great person Bec Mercer is a very interesting individual to know. She’s always my go-to…

6 min readJul 29, 2018

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13 Questions for Bec Mercer

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13 Questions

13 Questions for James Braund

James and I first met working together on an ill-fated print newspaper called East. He was its staff photographer and I was a junior…

4 min readJul 10, 2018

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13 Questions for James Braund

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13 Questions

13 Questions for Kate Iselin

Kate Iselin is a writer, provocateur, sex worker, and sex-worker-rights activist whose work you should have read in The Guardian, The…

5 min readJul 8, 2018

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13 Questions for Kate Iselin

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13 Questions

13 questions for Greg Stingray

I think everyone should get the celebrity portrait and questionnaire treatment. People who come by my place get it with extreme prejudice.

5 min readJun 17, 2018

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13 questions for Greg Stingray

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Ross Floate

Modernism's Last Nightstand

History suggests IKEA could eat the technology industry's smart-home lunch. Here's hoping.

14 min readJun 12, 2018

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Modernism's Last Nightstand

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Ross Floate

What’s in a face?

I’ve been talking a great deal about both ‘The Americans’ and ‘Westworld’ lately, mostly to anyone who can’t make me shut up about them.

2 min readMay 28, 2018

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What’s in a face?

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Ross Floate

Ross Floate

Designer, writer, and ethicist. Always looking for patterns. Sometimes looking for clues. I'm aways for hire, I once was on fire. Melbourne, Australia.

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